Mugwort - Artemisia vulgaris

Mugwort - Artemisia vulgaris

Native - Flowers July - Sept, aromatic perennial, grows up to 1.5m find it  all over the place but not a problem. 

Mugwort - Artemisia vulgaris

Mugwort - Artemisia vulgaris

Still a popular Herbal Remedy.

Wednesday 7 August

Dry morning

 Mugwort - Artemisia vulgaris tiny flowers

 Lots of large patches of Mugwort all over the valley

Water Mint - Mentha aquatica 

Take Care

Wednesday 17 August

Dry Morning.

 Beech Nut or Mast - Fagus sylvatica

 Hairy Gall - Hartigiola annulipes on Beech

 Hairy Gall - Hartigiola annulipes

 Artichoke Gall - Andricus fercundator on Oak

 Crab Apple

 Mugwort - Artemisia vulgaris

Big Lodge

Take Care.

Sunday 24 July

Sunny this morning and we had a great time on the beach.

Mussell shell with Barnacles attached.

Common Cord-grass - Spartina anglica

Geese & Llama on one of the farms - All the geese are already ordered for Christmas.

Mugwort - Artemisia vulgaris

Mugwort - Artemisia vulgaris

Sea Aster - Aster tripolium

Sea Potato - Echinocardium cordatum also called Heart Urchin

Sea Potato - Echinocardium cordatum

Sea Potato - Echinocardium cordatum

Smooth Sow Thistle - Sonchus oleraceus

Looks like a river - but it is a water outlet on the beach into the sea.

Water outlet to sea

Take Care

Monday 11 July

On our own so we ambled about - it was dry and warm in the valley.

Bramble - Rubus fruticosus

Japanese Larch - Larix kaempferi

Tutsan - Hypericum androsaemum

 Not a pretty sight but nature has to be seen in all it's facets - we think a crow...

Wood Sage - Teucrium scorodonia

 Speckled Wood a bit worn - by the old cottage ruins at Dry Bones.

Garden Privet  - Ligustrum ovalifolium

Lesser Burdock - Arctium minus

 Meadow Brown lots about on Primrose Hill.

Figwort Sawfly - Tenthredo scrophulariae

Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus pedunculatus

Red Bartsia - Odontites verna

Spear Thistle - Circium vulgare

Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

Mugwort in Bud - Artemisia vulgaris

Yellow Iris Seed Pods - Iris pseudacorus

Take Care.

Wednesday 1 June

Dry morning and a walk onto the Lower Burgh Meadow.

 Black Medick - Medicago lupulina

 Coot Eggs by the Big Lodge.

 7 Spot Ladybird

 Mugwort - Artemisia vulgaris

 Tufted Vetch - Vicia cracca

Yellow Iris

Take Care.